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And so, back to the insects.
Well, the last thing I really love about insects is something that a lot of people find unnerving about them.
I really love that it's difficult to anthropomorphize insects, to look at them and just think of them like they're little people in exoskeletons, with six legs.
Instead, you really have to accept them on their own terms, because insects make us question what's normal and what's natural.
But as far as I'm concerned, who needs to be able to see dead people, when you can see live insects?
The European robin migrates from Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean, every autumn, and like a lot of other marine animals and even insects, they navigate by sensing the Earth's magnetic field.
Then I made some weird insects and creatures.
Musician and natural soundscape expert Bernie Krause describes how a healthy environment has animals and insects taking up low, medium and high-frequency bands, in exactly the same way as a symphony does.
This system is called a haplodiploid system, and we see it not only in ants, but also in other highly social insects like bees and wasps.
You'll still need goggles and a helmet to protect you from birds, insects, street signs, electrical wires, and other flying humans, including flying cops ready to hand you a ticket if you don't follow the flying rules, buddy.
Early hunter-gatherers probably learned from animals that foraged for protein-rich insects and followed suit.
We feel an "ick factor" associated with them and are disgusted by the prospect of cooking insects.
Insects can contain up to 80% protein, the body's vital building blocks, and are also high in energy-rich fat, fiber, and micronutrients like vitamins and minerals.
Did you know that most edible insects contain the same amount or even more mineral iron than beef, making them a huge, untapped resource when you consider that iron deficiency is currently the most common nutritional problem in the world?
Farming insects for food also has less environmental impact than livestock farms do because insects emit far less greenhouse gas and use up less space, water, and food.
Insects can also be turned into more sustainable food for livestock and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills.
And everything in the street, every passing person or car, any contents of the neighbor's trash, each type of tree, and all the birds and insects in it has a distinct odor profile telling your dog what it is, where it is, and which direction it's moving in.
Fish are the most resource-efficient animal protein available to humankind, aside from insects.
New technologies means that we can now produce a feed that's perfectly natural, with a minimal footprint that consists of microbes, insects, seaweeds and micro-algae.
And microbes and insects are actually net water producers.
We see similarly unbelievable genitalia in insects, mammals, reptiles, fish, spiders, and even snails.
This way, the genes of the most musical penises spread, leading to rapid evolution of insects' phalluses.
Now, after this particular Dreadnoughtus carcass was buried and de-fleshed by a multitude of bacteria, worms and insects, its bones underwent a brief metamorphosis, exchanging molecules with the groundwater and becoming more and more like the entombing rock.
So changing or eliminating a population is practical only if that species has a fast reproductive cycle, like insects or maybe small vertebrates like mice or fish.
Just think of all of the species, the diversity, that was removed in the process, whether plant life, insects or animal life.
Think about insects.
They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae.
But the insects aren't stupid, and they would avoid the spores when they came close, and so I morphed the cultures into a non-sporulating form.
Then we tried extracts, and lo and behold, we can steer insects to different directions.
You could fly 100 Ph.D. students under the umbrella of this concept, because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores.
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